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There is a huge amount of misinformation today on the internet with regard to how to get more web traffic. I want to add some clarity and provide some sound information on this topic because not all traffic is equal. There is good traffic and there is bad traffic.

Plus, I would like you to keep in mind, that there is a huge amount of hype and scam artists that are willing to sell you their traffic programs, software, leads, and anything else that can generate income for them and not necessarily you.

One main misconception about traffic is the assumption that, if you can generate enough of it, You can sell anything. People lose a lot of money thinking this. There are countless MLM and Network Marketing companys that provide capture pages for their product or services and members get the false idea that if they can draw enough traffic to the page, they will rake it in. This just is not true.

I have seen (and experienced it myself) people get into debt thinking this way. I once purchased guaranteed paid sign ups to a company website and got totally ripped off. You do not want to experience this yourself. Trust me. So, if you want to learn how to get quality traffic to your website, then continue reading this page. It is all about traffic!

Free Website Traffic – Is It Worth It?

Of course not all free traffic is the same. There are many forms of free traffic.

So, that being said, I want to mention that the best free traffic is that which is directed to an authority website.

Each of these different forms of free website traffic have there place. For example, you would not typically use a traffic exchange to promote a Dog training blog or website. Nor would you promote a money making opportunity in a Facebook group dedicated to women’s clothing. They are just not relevant to the respective niches.

These differences are fairly obvious, but I have seen marketers use these free types of advertising completely wrong. For example, you should never advertise a MLM companys replicated website in a traffic exchange or safelist.

At bare minimum you would want to advertise a squeeze page offering a free gift of some type to capture an email so you can promote to the prospect later and as often as you want to. This would be a more appropriate way to use a traffic exchange, safelist or viral mailer.

Traffic exchanges, safelists and viral mailers actually work, if you use them correctly and with the right capture page and freebie give away. But, just like most free traffic sources you are trading time for results. It takes more time to use these sources and in my opinion, you would be better off doing content marketing and using free organic traffic. We will talk about those methods later on.

The rest of the free website traffic methods listed above should be primarily used for authority website and niche blogs in my opinion. Having your own web presence is the most efficient way to use these particular traffic sources. For example, posting your latest blog post in a relevant Facebook groups is far more effective than spamming a MLM or Network Marketing ad in a Facebook group.

Facebook groups used for spamming purposes is the biggest waste of time the internet has ever created!

Should We Buy So Called Quality Traffic

This is a very easy question to answer. NO!

If you saw an ad offering you thousands of visitors for $20, you are about to get ripped off. Plain and simple. Most of this type of traffic are bot traffic. That’s right robot traffic that has no human being associated with it. If it is not bot traffic, then it will probably be incentivized traffic.

Incentivized traffic is traffic that only clicks the ad because they get something for free, whether that be a few cents or coupons of some sort. Stay away from this type of traffic. It will only crowd your website and make you look very unprofessional. In fact, I knew a website owner whose system crashed because one of his affiliate purchased some “crap” traffic.

Some companys will even go as far as trying to sell you “guaranteed sign ups” for generic MLM leads. They will claim that these so called sign ups will work for any and all Network Marketing, MLM, or affiliate marketing companys. Again, stay away from these, trust me on this one. I have fallen victim to these as well.

In a nut shell, if it sounds too good to be true, it most certainly is NOT TRUE!

This leads us to the next section. Traffic training is certainly needed in this industry to protect us all from the traffic scammers. you see, scammers are not just in the business opportunity market, but in the website traffic market as well.

Traffic Training Courses

There are a huge number of traffic training courses available online these days. Just look at JVZoo, clickbank and some other affiliate network. Traffic generation is big business and there are a plethora of traffic training available. Some are good, some are bad and some are down right over-priced!

Then there are the ones that are completely out dated and you need to be super careful about those. For example, some black hat back linking training out there that promises you great traffic to your blog by purchasing manufactured backlinks to your website can take a site from a good search engine ranking to a never ranking again website.

In my opinion, you should never purchase a back link to a website, but that is another topic entirely. Back links should come to your website naturally because of your good content. That is what the search engines want, is good content.

A good traffic training course will provide:

Weekly live training that is current

A solid foundational training that teaches evergreen strategies that work every day

What’s The Best Website Traffic

So, the best website traffic available online is definitely organic traffic generated from an authority website. There is no better way to make a passive income producing machine than to run an authority niche website that generates daily organic FREE traffic from King Google.

There are billions of searches being done on google from people who are looking for products and services that these authority website have to offer. The way to drive this type of traffic is by practicing sound white hat Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on a blog or website. The exciting part is that anyone can do this.

It is not hard to learn, but does require work. But, to keep things in perspective, the work is much easier than it was to learn our current 9 to 5 jobs. Just think about when you started you current jobs. Remember the first day. Did you know what you were doing, or did you get trained somehow to do your job as efficiently as you do now (hopefully, lol)?

This leads us to the very, very, very best traffic on the face of the earth!

Keyword Targeted Website Traffic

Keyword targeted website traffic really comes in two different forms. It can be organic traffic as mentioned in the section above this one, or it can come from paid search engine traffic such as Google Ad words or Bing Ads.

What makes this type of traffic unique is that it is the direct result of someone searching for a specific topic from the search engines. You most likely have conducted searches on the internet like this yourself. You type in a search phrase into Google looking for something, and you expect that you will see relevant results from the search engine.

So, if you type into the search bar, “size 10 white Nike basketball shoes” you will expect to see size 10 white Nike basketball shoes. And, the real exciting part is, if you are the one who owns the website that produces the results for the search, there is a good chance you just made a sale.

That my friend, is the way to make money on the internet. You can see why I am categorizing this as the very, very, very best traffic on the face of the earth.

Let’s take the example above for a minute. The phrase “size 10 White Nike Basketball shoes” is a keyword phrase that I am assuming gets a lot of search results. If not, let’s pretend it does, remember this is just an example. There are many other search terms like this that are searched every day on the internet.

You may be someone who can relate to this. I lost a career job of 18 years only because the company I worked for at the time was purchased by a bigger company and had a whole department doing what I was doing.

They said, “don’t take it personally, we just don’t need you anymore”.

Another thing I did, was I emailed to my sponsor of a network marketing company I was with at the time and explained to him that I really needed to “learn this stuff quick so I can start making money online fast. And, oh by the way, I need it to be free”. I got a long email back from him, that hurt my pride a bit.

Over time, I got back on my feet, but this perspective cost me more than just my pride.

You see, the longer I spent looking for a fast and free way to earn money online the longer it took me to go, well, no-where where fast.

Can you relate to this?

Have you found yourself looking for the same thing?

Looking for the Fast and Free Way to Make Money Online Was Costing Me Time and Money

One of the reasons this perspective cost me more than my pride was the fact that I continued to look for the easy and fast way to earn an income online and didn’t even realize the damage it was doing.

You see, every time I received good advice from people who were actually making money, I didn’t listen because I didn’t want to hear what the had to say. Things like:

List building

Content marketing

SEO

Building websites

Building authority in a niche

You see I ignored all the techniques and avenues that you need to take to make this dream a reality. Perhaps you know what I mean.

I heard things like,

you can reach financial freedom,

spend time with your friends and family,

Work with your pajama’s on

Have a 12 second commute

If you have spent any time at all researching these types of programs on the internet you know what I mean. Let’s face it, these things are very appealing. Right?

But the thing is, I wasted a huge amount of time and money chasing the easy and free ways. I ultimately learned that if I had just listened to the REAL experts and not the scammers, I would have already been financially free and traveling the world with my family and not worrying about whether I got laid off or not.

Seriously folks, I can tell you from experience, there is only one way to really earn money online.

And that is these two main things:

Learn the skills necessary

WORK on these skills until your successful

Before you know it, you are on the road to success.

Going No-where Where Fast

The reason I was going no-where where fast was because I was approaching the whole thing in desperation. Even after I got back on my feet and wasn’t quite as desperate as I was, I still chased the next “shiny object”.

You know what I mean, the next advertisement that said, I can make money online without a website, or without spending any monthly expenses and you can learn all about how to do this by just paying such-and-such an amount. Go ahead and put in on your credit card. Don’t’t worry, you will be making way more than you will spend.

Have you heard this before?

Have you been there.

Oh and just recently with the crypto currency world. Just sign up hear and you will get massive amounts of “passive income”. No-where recruiting and no-where work involved.

Yes, I have heard it all my friends.

But the thing is, while wasting my time purchasing course after course and one promise after another, I kind of knew what it actually took to be successful at this online stuff. Hard work, dedication, consistency and having a community point you in the right direction.

You see, I was learning just enough to realize I wasn’t going to find the quick way to success. I joined an awesome community of online marketers, started doing what was necessary, but then again it happened. Yep, you guessed it, I was swept away with the next “shiny object”. Again, I was a victim of the “shiny object syndrome”.

The internet is so full of hype and making money at home scams that it is a crying shame to an industry that has so much potential. We are living in an age where we can make our own successful business without any special education or high investment and the scammers are making it more difficult by luring us into the wrong direction with distraction. And, the only ones who really make money with these shiny objects are the scammers who own them.

Finally, I Started To Put This Online Marketing Thing Into Perspective

So, after many wasted years of trying to do online marketing the quick and easy way, I decided to think about an article I read from a top earner in the industry.

He was well respected and the co-owner of a great online university where many other real people (like you and me) were ACTUALLY making full time incomes on the internet.

My perspective really changed after I decided to really digest what he was saying. For example,

We spend 40 hours a week at our jobs and, if we do a great job, we expect we will get recognized with a pay raise, or even a promotion of some sort.

If we are really lucky, the company will reward its employees with a yearly bonus or a retirement investment option or something like that.

These are standard expectations for the offline world. But when it comes to the online world, we have different expectations. We expect that we can make money online fast and free. Not only that, but then we expect it to not require a lot of work.

Can we make money online fast and free?

Well, depending on your definition of fast, the short answer is YES we can. However, it does require work. I am not saying it requires difficult to learn or do work, but work and dedication at bare minimum. To expect otherwise would be foolish. So, in a nut shell, I was being foolish.

So, the question becomes, what is the definition of fast?

Let’s say you invest 3 hours per week into your business. This is a reasonable amount of time in the online world and I know from experience that there are people putting in that amount of time, and are making a good income on the internet. The problem is the expectations of this far exceed that of those that invest 40 hours into a day job per week. So, can one make a consistent full time income at this rate say in three months?

The reality is that 3 hours per week can lead to a consistent and full time income with time, but after 3 months, that is really only 36 total hours you have invested in your business. Why would your expectations be a full time income at that point, or even any consistent income for that matter (unless it was illegal or unethical)?

Putting things into perspective, investing 36 hours into your business is just getting the basic foundation in place. That is why after 3-4 months people will typically not be generating a huge income, they have invested less than a full working week into their business.

Now imagine putting in more hours per week into your business. You will get their faster, of course, but you may have a full time job already. So, you need to average the time out to what is reasonable to you. But, your expectations should be based on a well-thought-out plan of action.

That is really the key. A well-thought-out plan of action with consistent activities to do each day based upon your schedule. So, the definition of fast is based upon the time and effort you put into it. I know people don’t like to hear that, but take it from me. You will waste your time and money if you try and take shortcuts. Most people will find that if they had the correct perspective to begin with, they would be where they want to be much, much quicker.

Conclusion and What To Expect

In my opinion, based on my personal experiences along with other 6 and 7 figure earners, one can easily start earning a decent income online after about a year of putting in the effort. You will need a good online education and the proper mentoring.

After about three years, you can be financially independent and have the time freedom to do with as you please. This is certainly possible and you can start for free.

Simply click on the image below to find out how.

In the SEO and Pay Per Click world we hear a lot about search volume and how important it is, but rarely do we hear how to find keyword search volume and specifically what to do with this metric once we have the information available to us.

In this post I would like to discuss, not only the importance of search volume, but exactly how to use the information in our marketing efforts to drive more traffic to our campaigns. That should be our primary focus. After all we are marketers as well as content writers and we need to keep in mind the importance of getting visitors to our website.

Whether you are using keywords for a PPC campaign or for optimizing an article, at the end of the day, it is crucial we understand our metrics and that they point us into the right direction. Otherwise, we are only grasping at the wind in our marketing efforts.

So, first of all we have to ask:

What Is Keyword Search Volume?

Keyword search volume is simply the number of searches for a particular keyword in a specific time frame. The time frame of interest for most marketers is a period of one month. This information provides marketers with a general idea of how popular a search phrase is in addition to its competition. Usually the more searches per month, the more competitive the search term will be.

Some time ago, you could use the Google Keyword Tool to give you a quick glance at keyword monthly search volume, but since the tool changed to the Google Keyword Planner, this information requires more steps and is a bit more confusing than it used to be. The other thing about the Google Keyword Planner is that the metrics it presents area more for Google Ad Words campaigns, than it is for optimizing a web page or practicing organic content marketing or SEO.

So, now that we have a basic understanding of what keyword search volume is, we can more effectively describe specifically how to find keyword search volume.

One way to find total search volume is to simply type our keyword phrase into Google in quotes. To illustrate this, refer to the image below:

As you can see from the image above, if we were interested in total search volume of the keyword phrase “play guitar” we could obtain total search volume. There are about 5,120,000 search results about this specific term. We really do not get a lot of valuable information from this search.

We could find related keyword phrases by scrolling down our search as illustrated in the image below:

As you can see, we can obtain more useful information for we just found some related keyword phrases that Google is telling us that people do search for. But, as you can see, we still haven’t found the number of monthly search results that will help us build great content around so we can drive traffic to our website, which is what most marketers are interested in doing.

Now if we use a good Keyword search tool, we can obtain a bunch of different information and metrics to help us rank our websites, pages and look at peak at our competition.

To illustrate how to get monthly searches for the term “play guitar” as well as find more related keyword phrases, look at the image below and let’s discuss the results:

So as you can see I was able to find the average monthly search results for the term “play guitar” by simply entering the term into the “phrase” bar above and selecting the blue “find keywords” button. I then got the following results. The first column shows that there are 7594 average number of searches per month for the term “play guitar”.

That is a fairly high number of search results and I would get quite a bit of traffic if I was able to get on the first page of Google for that term.

The problem is that there are 206 other websites competing for that same term. This metric was obtained from the third column known as QSR (Quoted Search Results).

QSR represents the number of competing websites ranked in Google for this exact keyword. I can also see from the fifth column that the SEO score is 67 out of 100. 100 representing the easiest level to rank for on a scale of 1 to 100. But this term has a score of only 67 out of 100.

These results are telling me that it may be a bit of a challenge to rank my page or post for this particular keyword phrase, depending on the age of the site and one’s knowledge of how to optimize blog posts for SEO.

Upon further analysis of these results I see that the search term “play guitar Chords” would be a much better keyword phrase to try and rank for. There are 831 searches done a month on this term, only 130 competing websites and an SEO score of 90 out of 100.

Traffic – A different Kind of Metric

Another metric that would be of interest to most marketers is the number of potential visitors (traffic) to your particular page per month. This is different from total monthly search volume because it is an estimate of how many visitors YOU would get on YOUR page if your site was on the first page of Google and it is derived from total monthly searches.

This metric is called traffic, and as mentioned, It is measured from total keyword search volume. To get a better understanding of what this looks like, take another look at our example from the keyword phrase “play guitar”.

The search results obtained for total monthly searches on the term “play guitar” shows 7594. If you take a look at the “traffic” column directly to the right of this number you will see the number 1291. This represents the total number of visitors you could receive if you ranked for the term “play guitar” on the first page of Google.

This is what I love about keyword research. You can get a very good idea of how possible and likely it is to rank for a particular keyword phrase. Take this information along with how to optimize blog posts for SEO and you can easily plan your marketing strategies and learn how to start earning money online.

How to Use Search Volume to Choose a Niche

Many marketers overlook the use of Keyword search volume for choosing a niche. We often times focus on keyword research to find a good topic to write an individual post or page on. Although this is a good use of a keyword tool, however, there are other applications as well. Yep, you guessed it, finding a good keyword rich niche to build a website on.

If you wanted to build a website upon a particular interest you have, you want to make sure that there is enough keyword rich phrases available to you that you can write pages and posts on. No sense and going through the work of building a website to find out later that you do not have enough high quality search phrases to write about. We all realize it takes a good amount of high quality content to generate a full time income with content marketing.

The process becomes a heck of a lot easier if we can build a large list of keyword rich terms associated with a good keyword rich niche.

Let us look at niche research further. Let’s say we had a general interest in the “losing weight” niche. Most of us would agree that this can be a very competitive niche. So, we figure that “how to Lose Belly fat” may be a bit easier to rank for. So, let us go to our friend Google and see what he (or she) has to say:

As you can see from Google, as we start to type in How to lose… Google finishes the phrase and this tells us that people are searching for the terms under the search bar. So, we decide to research “how to lose belly fat” to see if this is a viable niche to get into.

So, we then take this phrase and head on over to Jaaxy, the best keyword research tool, to take a look at our results. Check out the image below:

As you can see from these results, the term “how to lose belly fat” is fairly competitive with a SEO rating of 78 and a QSR of 175 (not too bad really), it may be more difficult to rank for that say, “how to lose belly fat for men”. Although, there are not as many searches per month. We definitely need to look at both. But if I was building out a new site, I want to try and rank for easier terms. So, let’s take is a step further.

I like the fact that belly fat for men may be easier to rank for as a site, but is there enough keyword rich content to write other pages or posts on? Well, if we take that search term and type it into Jaaxy, let us see what we get. Check out the image below.

OK, not too bad. But, before we start talking about the results I want to elaborate on the metrics and parameters that I prefer to use. I like to see the average number of monthly search to be above 50 with an ideal QSR rating of less than 150. This is especially ideal for a newer site. This is because new sites take a longer period to get indexed in the search engines.

I also like to see an SEO rating about 80. That being said, as you can see, how to lose belly fat for men would be a better niche to get into. It has quite a few searches above 50 that are above 80 for the SEO value. This would be a good niche to get into. You can play around with this tool more for free to get a bigger picture of what we can do here, but I think you get the picture.

Conclusion

As you can see from these examples of how to find keyword search volume and the other metrics a good keyword tool can provide, there is a never ending supply of easy to rank for keywords. It is just a matter of uncovering them.

Making money online is actually not as hard as people make it. It is a matter of doing the proper research, and not falling for all the hype on the internet telling you that you can get rich by next Thursday.

It does require work and research, but as you can see the research can be done quickly and easily with a good keyword research tool and good SEO training. I highly recommend that you check out my full on review of the Jaaxy keyword tool and how it works. There is a great amount of training provided and you can get 30 free searches to try it out yourself.

I highly recommend that you read my full review of Jaaxy and all of its features. I have only talked about a small fraction of what this amazing tool can really do.

As always if you have any questions relating to keyword research or how to earn an awesome income online, leave your comments below and I will get right back to you. I would love to hear about your experiences with Keyword research, SEO or how you earn an income online. We can share information, ideas and strategies. I am always open to your thoughts and ideas. Make it an awesome day!

Since you are reading this article, you most likely understand the importance of using the right keywords for your marketing efforts. You may also realize that keywords are not only important for ranking a page or a post on your site, but have other applications as well. That being said, the best SEO keyword research tool needs to be robust enough to satisfy all the requirements necessary for effective content marketing.

As marketers, we need to know how our page, post or site compares to our competition, how they are ranked in the search engines, as well as how we are ranked in the search engines. We need to know our position in the SERPS. We need an in depth look at all the factors that impact our content marketing and we want it all on one platform, without having to use a variety of tools.

So, what is the best research tool to use that encompasses all of our needs?

Best SEO Keyword Research Tool – Are We Sure About This?

Well, I am certainly sure about this statement. In this review, I would like to share with you why I believe Jaaxy is the only research tool in my arsenal of marketing tools. Jaaxy has all the necessary features that we need to use for all of our keyword research needs. I will go through each of the features and benefits of Jaaxy to give you a full understanding of the power and value it really provides for the content marketer.

I will also describe the different levels and access points of Jaaxy and how you can use it for free to try it out before choosing one of the paid options. You will soon see how powerful this tool really is and you will definitely be surprised to see what data is available to you as a marketer.

The very foundation of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is targeting the right keywords, But, of course, there is more to it than just coming up with the right keywords. There is also

niche research,

competition analysis,

search history and analysis,

finding the best affiliate programs,

and brainstorming.

And Jaaxy has all of these built into one single platform.

Membership Options

Jaaxy allows everyone an option to use its amazing features and benefits by offering an option at all price levels including FREE!

There are three membership options available:

Free Version: $0 (30 free searches)

Jaaxy Pro: $49 per month

Jaaxy Enterprise: $99 per month

There is another free membership option for Jaaxy and really is the most cost effective way to get started with Jaaxy.

Click the image below to get started with Jaaxy and choose your membership option:

The Main Components Of Jaaxy

There are a lot of moving parts that contribute to the effectiveness of high quality content, and let’s face it, high quality content is what matters most in today’s competitive market place.

People are on the internet to find quality information that addresses what they are searching for. Information that answers their questions or information that offers a solution to problems they have. They are researching to find high quality content that address the areas they are searching for and those that offer good content are the ones who get the visitors to their sites.

Every good marketer realizes that if they can provide content that addresses what people are searching for then there is plenty of opportunity to make a great income online. Jaaxy offers 10 main components that help marketers get the edge on their competition so that they are the ones who can help potential customers obtain what they are looking for.

These 10 components include:

Keyword Data

Alphabet Soup

Saved Lists

Search History

Search Analysis

Affiliate Programs

Site Rank

Affiliate Program

Jaaxy Help

I would like to describe the most utilized components in more detail below.

You can also sign up for a FREE account here and try them out for your self.

Keyword Data

I cannot express enough the importance of good keyword data. There are approximately 500 million brand new search terms being searched every single day and the importance of having a search tool that can keep up and offer competition data, accurate traffic data, and domain insights into billions of keywords is extremely important in today’s market place.

Jaaxy produces the keyword data you are looking for in a matter of seconds, not minutes. The data you get shows traffic, competition, QSR, ranking and domain data for billions of search terms.

Below is an example view of a keyword search from the Jaaxy dashboard.

Alphabet Soup

You may be hungry, but this isn’t the kind of soup you can eat, sorry. The alphabet soup feature in Jaaxy is a high speed automated version of a manual technique with the same name.

The alphabet soup technique in Jaaxy is an automated version of what you can do in Google manually. You may have noticed as you type a search phrase in Google, you see underneath suggested phrases that Google generates. These generated search phrases are derived from popular phrases that people have searched in the past.

This type of information provides the marketer with ideas that they can then take to the keyword tool and find other keyword ideas to narrow down to the ideal search phrase. We can then use information such as search volume, competition, and SEO scores to narrow down to the ideal keyword phrase.

The image below displays more accurately what I mean by the manual version of this technique that Google provides:

As you can see Google finishes the search with historical data. You can type in the letter “a” above instead of “p” and you will get word results that start with the letter “a”. You can do this for “b” and so on. This is why it is called the alphabet soup technique.

Now Jaaxy has taken this a step further and has completely automated the process.

Check out the image below to see what I mean.

Using this technique alone can save you hours upon hours of research time alone. Not only that, but you get a never ending amount of search term and keyword ideas to build out an amazing amount of very targeted content that will drive massive amounts of traffic to your website.

As you can see in the right-hand column, you can click on the “search on this” link and then obtain all the necessary data from all the metrics that Jaaxy offers from the keyword data section shown above.

Saved Lists

The saved lists area of Jaaxy is a great place to house all the research data that you have accumulated using the data search features as well as the alphabet soup technique. The saved list feature allows you to categorize your keyword phrases into named categories for future reference. This way you don’t have to search again for terms you have already searched for because you forgot the results.

I use this feature a lot when I am conducting niche research. For example, I may want to look for search terms to build a website upon. If I find a good search term that has a lot of searches with low competition, I may want to build an entire website just for that topic. Once I find the niche, I can then look for supporting search phrases to build my individual pages upon and then categorized and save them under my niche phrase as the title. You can have many saved lists.

For example, I created two different list categories, SEO, and building websites and found a variety of keyword phrases with high search volume and low competition and then saved them for future reference. I may want to go back and create websites in these two categories. It will be easy because I have already done the research and know the phrases upon which to build out my pages on. These phrases are being searched and I can easily rank for these terms. Check out the image below for details:

As you can see, all the keywords I saved into these two lists have a good number of searches per month with a low QSR rating indicating low competition. Metrics that I like to follow are an Average search volume of above 100 a month (first column) and a QSR rating of less than 100 (second column). Remember from our discussion above, that the QSR rating metric indicates the number of competing websites.

Based on these metrics, it would be wise to build a website in the SEO niche or building website niche since I have a lot of good keyword data that shows high search volume with low competition. There are millions of keywords available like this, which means there are many, many opportunities to make a good income online. It only takes a good research tool like Jaaxy, to help you pick them out.

Search Analysis

I think that the search analysis feature of Jaaxy is the most amazing aspect of this research tool. It really gives you a good look at your competition. Once you have done some keyword research and are ready to start building out your content, you may want to go a step further and see what your competition is doing with the same keyword phrases.

You simply type in the desired keyword phrase, select the “find keywords” button and bam!

You get instant access to detailed information on the top 10 ranked web pages that are ranked for that same keyword phrase. Details such as, the complete meta description, website word count, links on site, # of back links, Alexa rank, adsense.

This is valuable information to see if you want to try and rank for a particular search phrase. Check out the image for an example of a search term for “How to build a website for free”.

As you can see from the result page, that you see exactly what your competition is doing that are on the first page of Google. You may, or may not want to try and out rank a site that has a huge number of back links, for example. Or, you may want to look for a niche that doesn’t have as much competition or has fewer number of a particular metric. The idea is you have this information available to you within seconds.

Site Rank

Site rank is another awesome feature that gives you very valuable information indeed. It allows you to see exactly where your page or site ranks in the Google, Yahoo and Bing search results. It tells you specifically the page and position within the SERPS.

In the Pro version of Jaaxy, you get 2000 search scans for any website URL you choose. In the Enterprise version, you get up to 10,000 search scans, and with the free version you get 30 site rank scans.

You enter the keyword you are trying to rank for and the domain of the page, post or website and the system will pull the results and show you where you are ranked (if, indeed, you are ranked).

This feature can be used for a website you own where you would like to see how you rank for a particular keyword phrase, or if you want to see how another site, say your competition ranks for a particular keyword phrase.

This is certainly a more efficient way of performing this type of search than simply typing the phrase into Google. You don’t have to use the Incognito function and you get more relevant information given to you.

Check out the image below for an example of how this feature is used.

As you can see from these results, the information given includes Google, Bing and Yahoo search results. In this particular case, this site (first position in Google) ranks for the search term “How to Build a Website” on the first page and first position of Google, The first page and fifth position of Yahoo, and it does not appear in any of the significant pages of Bing.

This is good information to have if you want to see how you rank or if you want to see how any other website is ranking as well.

Conclusion and Final Verdict

Well, it is pretty obvious that I like how Jaaxy functions as a keyword tool and I certainly think that it is the best SEO keyword research tool on the planet, by far. It offers the most value for your money and really is the only keyword research tool you will ever need. Jaaxy is good for keyword research for posts or pages as well as for niche research. Jaaxy is also a great tool to “spy” on your competition.

It would be impossible to cover all the specific details of Jaaxy without trying it yourself, and the great thing is that you can

It is one thing to write good consistent content, but unless you are optimizing your blog posts, you are simply wasting your efforts if you plan on driving traffic to your website. In this article I will be discussing how to optimize blog posts for SEO and showing you a few awesome and easy to implement strategy’s to increase traffic to your posts after you have published them.

Gone are the days when you need fancy software or black hat back linking strategies to rank a blog post on the first page of Google. The search engine kings are now interested in high quality content and one can implement some simple on page SEO strategies to get their posts on the first page. It is really not that hard as long as you write good and compelling content and have conducted proper keyword research.

So, is actually necessary to ensure that your blog posts are properly optimized?

I have broken them down into three basic categories.

What to do before writing the post (Research)

What to do while writing the post (7 steps to SEO success)

What to do after publishing the post (Marketing)

So, what do you do before writing the post?

Keyword Research

There is a lot of material on the internet about keyword research, but we do not need to make it too complicated. It really boils down to capturing two metrics into your research.

Find a keyword phrase that has over 100 monthly searches, and

has less than 100 competing websites trying to rank for that same keyword phrase

That’s it. You just need to have a keyword research tool that is capable of giving you those results accurately. I offer a free keyword Generator for that purpose.

The other thing you will want to do is check your keyword in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Page). To do this you simply enter your keyword phrase into the Google search and review your competition. This is just a general view of what the titles are and how they are displaying their meta titles and meta descriptions (we cover this more below).

Once this is done, you can go ahead and conduct an article research on your keyword phrase. This can be reading other articles written as well as a Wikipedia search. The more you read about the keyword phrase the more authoritative your article will be.

What do you do while you write the post?

7 Key SEO Strategies To Use On Your Post

Consistency is the key for success in optimizing your blog posts. You want to follow these 7 key on page SEO strategies for every post you write. They are as follows:

Meta Title

Meta Description

Keyword in the content (once)

Alt tag within an Image (featured image is best)

Internal links

External Links

Embed a video

Using these strategies are not difficult, but it is necessary to use all the on every blog post you use. The one exception to this rule can be the last one. Embed a video. It may not be necessary on every blog post to embed a video because for some posts, finding a relevant video may not be practical or fit into the subject matter. But, embedding a YouTube video does help in the rankings (remember who owns YouTube, yep, Google).

Meta Title and Meta Description

The best way to obtain a good meta title and meta description is through the use of a good SEO plugin. I recommend either All in one SEO or Yoast. Either one of these plugins work well.

The rule of thumb to use here is having the keyword phrase in both the meta title and the meta description. The other rule of thumb I like to use is what I call the 55 and 155 rule. That means your title should be around 55 characters and your meta description should be around 155 characters.

Also, keep in mind your meta title does not have to be the same as your blog post title. They actually serve two different purposes. The meta title is what shows up in the SERP results. Your blog title is what shows up on your post after someone clicks on your post from the SERPs.

In the same way, the meta description is what shows up in the SERP results and can be customized to fit in the max characters allowed (which has recently been increased in Google). To obtain both of these, you simply use the SEO plug in as instructed. They are both free to use and there is no real need to purchase the upgrade for either one of these plugins in my opinion.

Keyword in the Content

It is not necessary to have a particular keyword density anymore! In fact, trying to stuff your keyword phrase in your post unnaturally can hinder your rankings. The content needs to be written naturally and with good quality content. That is the key.

It is recommended that your keyword phrase happen naturally in the very first paragraph of your content, and it is only necessary to have it once. All other uses of your keyword phrase should only happen if it needs to be used in a natural way. Keep in mind your keyword is already going to be used in several other places, such as your meta title, meta description, your content and alt images. So, there is no need to over use it.

Alt Tag Within An Image

It is best to use a feature image. Most WordPress themes allow you to add a featured image. This has the advantage of showing up within social media channels such as Google Plus and Facebook. When you post your link into these social media channels, it normally pulls from the feature image.

Then you simply add your keyword phrase in the title attributes section of the image as well as the Alternate Tag section. This will allow the phrase to be displayed as you hover over the image from a published post.

Add Internal and External Links In Your Post

I cannot stress enough how important internal and external linking are. Especially internal linking within your blog. This shows Google how your site is structured. Plus if you only lead people away from your site, Google sees that as your site must not be important enough to link to other pages within your site. That is exactly what internal linking is. It is when you link to another page within your site.

When you place internal links within your site, you want to make sure it is relevant to the discussion and words you are using as anchor text. As an example in this post, I used an internal link to my free keyword generator within my site when I talked about using a keyword tool. That is an example of using an internal link. Notice that it was used in a relevant way.

The same is true for external links. An external link is when you link externally to an outbound link such as Wikipedia or YouTube or some other authority site. Keep in mind though, that an affiliate link isn’t the type of external link we are referring to here. Yes, an affiliate link is an external link, but not for this strategy. An example of an external link can be found in the very first sentence post. I externally link to Wikipedia for the term blog.

Embed A Video

When you embed a video on your post, you want to make sure the video is relevant to your subject matter, of course. You also want to make sure it is embedded from YouTube.

The best way to do this is to create your own video and then embed it onto your site using the embed code from the share feature on YouTube. The reason this is a ranking factor is because Google likes Google, and Google owns YouTube. This will definitely help with your rankings and is certainly a ranking metric. As mentioned before, it may not be practicle to embed a video on every single one of your posts. So, this is the only exception to not using each of these 7 strategies on every single page or post you create on your blog.

OK that is the 7 key SEO strategies that will help you rank your blog articles on the major search engines, mainly Google. The big dog of the search engine world.

Now what do you do after you publish your post?

Marketing Your Blog Post

Here are three main things you should do to help you rank your blog post after it has been published.

Fetch as Google inside the Google Search Console

Post To Social (Google+)

Email Broadcast to your list (provided you have one)

When should you do these three marketing techniques?

Each and every time you write a page or a post. Another important point here, is you can take old pages and posts and do these three techniques and it will help you rank older posts as long as the on page SEO strategies were followed. The fetch as Google strategy can also be done when updated or editing an older posts.

In addition to fetching as Google, you can also resubmit your site map any time you make a change to a page or a post.

The other thing you want to do for each page or post is to post it to our Google Plus account. Remember, Google love Google. This will actually help you rank your posts fairly quickly. As I stated in the beginning of this article. Gone are the days when back linking strategies are needed. You will get plenty of natural back links to your pages and posts if you create good content and your content is shared socially.

One technique I recommend for posting on Google Plus it to start with the title, then copy and paste your meta description along with your post URL right into your Google Plus entry. It wouldn’t hurt also is you went ahead and did the same thing on your Facebook profile. This is not as effective as Google Plus though.

Then, the last thing you want to do is send a broadcast email to your list asking your readers to read your latest blog post. Only do this, of course, if you have a list to begin with.

There you go. These are the strategies on how to optimize blog posts for SEO. It is very important to be consistent with these strategies on each and every post you write on your blog. The more posts you write the more traffic your blog will receive. Now go out there and create optimized blog posts.

So, before we can determine legitimacy or not, we need to ask, what is Easy 1 Up?

Easy 1 Up is a matrix type of multilevel marketing program owned by Peter Wolfing, who has been in the industry for a number of years now. He runs this program under the umbrella of a company known as Multiplex Systems Inc. Which is also the main company behind another company that Peter runs known as National Wealth Center,

Peter Wolfing has also been involved with other similar company’s which no longer exist known as The ultimate Cycler, Turbo Cycler, business toolbox and a more well-known program known as Infinity Downline. It was Infinity Downline that was the precursor to his only other existing business, National Wealth Center.

It would require a lot of research to understand what happened to all the other company’s that Peter has been involved with, for Easy 1 up and National Wealth Center are currently the only two that still exists today. I suspect it has something to do with avoiding investigations from the SEC (Security Echange Commission) or FTC (Federal Trade Commission). These bodies tend not to like matrix program that much because their pay structures are very similar to other company’s that have been shut down for being considered Ponzi schemes.

That being said, I am not saying that Easy 1 up is a Ponzi scheme, it is just that its pay structure is susceptible to investigations of this nature.

With the recent investigations concerning company’s like Aspire, AKA Digital Altitude, and a variety of Crypto Currency company’s, the SEC tends to pinpoint company’s that have these matrix type of pay plans. Especially when it is vague as to what the product actually is.

Easy 1 Up, Product And Opportunity Overview

In order to learn about the overview of the Easy 1 Up opportunity you can simply view the advertisement video below keeping in mind it is meant to persuade you to sign up. But, it does give you a good overview of the product and opportunity overview.

Easy 1 Up is essentially a program that teaches potential internet marketers “how to 1up their competition by continuing to learn and develop new strategies”. The company attempts to do this by offering five different courses that offer hours of training intended to keep the internet and/or network marketer up to date on the latest trends in the market.
These courses scale from a beginners course, known as Elevation basic ($25) to a very advanced course known as Vertex Live ($2000) with other courses in between. When you purchase these courses you get access to the ability to resell them and receive commissions sent directly to you in addition to an admin fee, which goes directly to the company, Multiplex Systems, Inc.

By checking out the image below, you can see how the cost of each program works in addition to the admin fees that goes directly to the company.

I will cover the details of the products in another section below, for this is a general overview. I would like to describe how the pay plan works since that is what most people who join are actually interested in. You will discover, very few people join this program to actually learn anything about internet or affiliate marketing. It really is more of an exercise to have a product to sell.

Easy 1 Up Compensation Plan

This Easy 1Up Compensation structure is a reverse 1 up plan, hence, the name.

When a person joins Easy 1 up, the have to purchase at least one of the products, which is paid directly to the affiliate who they joined under. They also pay an admin fee, which then goes directly to the company.

Payment is made via Solid Pay Trust, Bitcoin, a merchant account, Western Union or PayPal.

The payment structure is really similar to a gifting program, but not too similar, because gifting programs are illegal.

The compensation plan is quite simple as described in the video above.The reverse 1 up plan is fairly simple to understand as well. Essentially you receive 100% commission on the first product that you are qualified to resell. On your second sale you have to pass that one up to your sponsor. This qualifies you to start earning on each sale going forward.
In turn, your team members their first sale to you.
The pay plan is similar to a gifting program in that it is a member to member payment structure. Meaning that the payments are sent directly to you via a payment processor. While the admin fee goes directly to the company.
I want to point out that the admin fee increases relative to the cost of the product as follows:

Elevation – cost is $25, admin fee is $5

Elevation Elite – cost is $100, admin fee is $10

Vertex – cost is $250, admin fee is $25

Vertex Elite – cost is $500, admin fee is $50

Vertex Pro – cost is $1000, admin fee is $100

Vertex Live – cost is $2000, admin fee is $500

I would also like to point out the when you purchase the product to qualify as a re seller, you also pay the admin fee in addition to the price of the product.

Pros and Cons

In this section I would like to discuss the pros and cons of the Easy 1 up program.

Pros:

Pro 1:
There is no monthly fee associated with the products. They are one-time costs to the affiliate.
Pro 2:
The owner of the program is fairly well-known and recognized in the industry and is able to be contacted.
Pro 3:
Due to the success of National Wealth Center, it can be assumed that the Easy 1 up program will stay around for a while, since they are owned by the same company.Cons

Con 1:
The admin fees are fairly substantial and it is unclear as to what value they actually provide. Plus you are encouraged to constantly purchase more products, tools and training.
Con 2:
It doesn’t appear as if the value of the product line justifies the costs associated. Especially the higher priced products. They seemed to be priced simply to provide higher commissions for the affiliates.
Con 3:
No Opportunity for recurring commissions. These are one time sales only.

Easy 1 Up, Products

In this section I would like to discuss the actual products offered by Easy 1 up. In general, they are intended to offer internet marketers a business education and are tiered is such a way as to make it possible for the affiliates to earn higher commissions. This is the emphasis of the product line itself. Not necessary to provide a solid business education, but to provide higher commission levels for the affiliates and perhaps higher admin fees for the company.
So let’s start with the lowest cost product known as:

Elevation

The cost of the product is $25 plus and admin fee of $5. By reselling this product through your affiliate link, you have the potential to earn $25 on your first sale, give up your second sale to your sponsor and earn $25 on each sale after. By studying the image below you can see what the product offers:

Elevation Elite

The cost of the product is $100 plus and admin fee of $10. By reselling this product through your affiliate link, you have the potential to earn $100 on your first sale, give up your second sale to your sponsor and earn $100 on each sale after. The Elevation Elite really seems to focus on advertising methods using YouTube. By studying the image below you can see what the product offers:

Vertex

The cost of the product is $250 plus and admin fee of $25. By reselling this product through your affiliate link, you have the potential to earn $250 on your first sale, give up your second sale to your sponsor and earn $250 on each sale after. By studying the image below you can see what the product offers:

Vertex Elite

The cost of the product is $500 plus and admin fee of $50. By reselling this product through your affiliate link, you have the potential to earn $500 on your first sale, give up your second sale to your sponsor and earn $500 on each sale after. By studying the image below you can see what the product offers:

Vertex Pro “Connect”

The cost of the product is $1000 plus and admin fee of $100. By reselling this product through your affiliate link, you have the potential to earn $1000 on your first sale, give up your second sale to your sponsor and earn $1000 on each sale after. By studying the image below you can see what the product offers:

Vertex Live

The cost of the product is $2000 plus and admin fee of $500. By reselling this product through your affiliate link, you have the potential to earn $2000 on your first sale, give up your second sale to your sponsor and earn $2000 on each sale after.

Vertex Live is a fairly new product, so the company does not have a lot of details about it on their website. In fact, I only know about it because I have purchased the lower level product and received the information via email from the owner of the company. The product is supposed to be a continuous live training offered by the owner, who has a tremendous amount of knowledge, mainly about Network Marketing, not necessarily affiliate marketing.
In fact, Peter Wolfing is the author of a book I read called “The Black Book of MLM Black Secrets, 101 Ways To Build Your Business. I have to say, the book doesn’t contain what I would consider secrets. They were pretty standard methods, such as posting on Facebook, using drop cards and the use of offline and online job boards. These, of course, are just examples, but nothing you couldn’t find yourself on a simple Google search.

Easy 1 Up Tools & Training

This is the area I believe that Easy 1 up totally falls short in. Since the company relies on the products themselves to be the training, they don’t really offer much more than the products themselves. And, of course, you don’t get the training unless you purchase the product, which means you will be told to purchase the more expensive packages to “really” get the support and training you need to succeed. You can certainly get much better training for far less. In fact, by #1 recommendation for awesome training can be found at the Wealthy Affiliate University.

The experience I have encountered with Easy 1 up is that I was constantly encouraged to spend more money. They claim you can start at the beginning level to succeed prior to joining. But, once you join, you will constantly be told to upgrade to the higher levels. In fact, I was told by the team leader I was associated with, that his support was mainly focused on the members that were at least at the level of Vertex Elite.

This included training from the so called “exclusive Facebook group”. You were pretty much ignored from the group if you were only an Elevation member. To me, this just isn’t right. You can definitely receive better training elsewhere at a much lower price than what you will find at Easy 1 Up. This is what I encountered anyways.

As far as tools go, this was another huge disappointment for me. While the company provides you with a standard capture page, you are told if you really want to succeed and stand out amongst all the competition, you will have to purchase another funnel system. Yes, Easy 1 Up uses the funnel first method of email marketing.

The funnel system is know as the Vertex Lead System. What is the cost of such a system? $98

Yes, you got that right, another $98 on top of all the other products you are encouraged to purchase. You can see where this starts to get out of hand. Especially for a product that doesn’t offer recurring commissions.

My Final Opinion of Easy 1 Up

So, my final conclusion of the products and opportunity offered by Easy 1 Up is that, overall, it is undervalued. The products are overpriced for what you get and the compensation plan borders on a Ponzi type of structure that has the potential of being investigated by the SEC or other agencies. This could be the reason why many of the other programs that were under Multiplex Systems, Inc are not longer with us. It is possible they were taken down to avoid such investigations, for they had similar pay structures.
I don’t know this for sure, it is simply a supposition. I think as of today, it is a legitimate program, but one never knows what will happen to it in the future. When I saw what happened with Digital Altitude, not so long ago, it makes me realize the risks associated with these types of programs. One thing I notice is they have some things in common. The pay structure and the fact that they encourage you to continually upgrade.
That being said, I think that Easy 1 Up is right at the border line of being a scam and/or being legit. It is owned by a legitimate owner who is fairly transparent. But, I do believe the company itself is at risk of being investigated for its pay structure and gifting type of system.

VERDICT: LEGIT/NOT LEGIT

If you are looking for high quality keywords for your website, check out our free keyword generator below.
It starts with a simple search, so enter your main keyword below to start your FREE search.

What Are The Best Metrics To Look For When Searching For Awesome Keywords?

So let’s talk about high quality keywords for a minute. High quality keywords in reality are the ones people are searching for that relate to some sort of problem they have, or to give them some sort of pleasure. If you can deliver on what people are searching for, you have hit a gold mine. You give them valuable content and then point them into the right direction. You will see what I mean after you have entered your search above in our free keyword generator.

Oh, you haven’t done that yet? Go ahead and give it a try…

This, of course, can be an affiliate product that satisfies their search even more than the free content that you have provided for them. This is the core of affiliate marketing. But, it starts with high quality keywords and in order to find these keywords we need a set of good metrics. They are as follows:

Monthly Searches –

This represents the number of searches for a given keyword. Keep in mind, these numbers are commulative. In other words, don’t go after a huge number. Not only because of the higher competition, but because they are additive in that you will be writing many posts and pages and the number of possible traffic adds up cumulatively. I believe if you target over 50 searches a month you will be doing well. The more the better, however, you also want low competition. We will discuss this on another metric below.

KQI (Keyword Quality Index)-

The KQI quickly indicates how easy or difficult it will be to rank for a particular keyword phrase. It is distinguished by color, green being great, yellow being OK, or red being poor. It is intended to give you a quick indicator to let you know whether you should continue with the research on that particular keyword phrase.

QSR (Quoted Search Results)-

This is the most awesome metric of all! This metric gather information from all the search engines and literally tells you the exact number of competing pages that are also trying to rand for that exact keyword phrase you are. Under 400 is considered good, 300 being an ideal result. So in conjunction with monthly searches of over 50 and a QSR of less than 300, you stand a good change of ranking on the first page of Google (and other search engines). Keep in mind that there are millions of these keyword phrases available so the opportunity for online success is huge when you have a tool like this available to you.

SEO (1 to 100)

This is a numerical score based on traffic and competition. The higher the score, the more likely you will rank for this keyword on the first page. The closer to 100 the better. If you can get on the first page of Google you can certainly make money online. Plain and simple. It is that easy when you have the right tools. This is super efficient research in action my friends.

To learn more about how keyword research works and how you can apply what you learn to finally make an awesome income from affiliate marketing, simply try our free keyword generator above. It can be done without a credit card and no obligations what so ever.